I like SyncToy, its a freebie Microsoft tool, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155. You simply tell it the folders you want to sync and where you want the data copied to. You can schedule it as well. Another think you can do is just use the built in Windows Backup in the Control Panel. You can specify what you want to be backed up and how often. At the same time you can create a system image that you can use to restore your machine if the OS ever becomes corrupted.

With two laptops and only one drive, you can't really schedule a backup, as it will fail if the drive's not connected => although if the laptops are "stagnant" and you can leave the drive connected to one, you can simply share it on the network and access it via the network from the other laptop -- then you can set both backups to happen automatically.

SyncBack lets you set the backup priority, which will limit the amount of CPU it uses to varying levels. The lowest is "Idle" -- which will pause the backup whenever the CPU is busy doing other things.

However ... that's all based on CPU load ... the free and "SE" versions (I use SE) don't have any settings to control the network bandwidth ==> but the Pro version does have bandwidth throttling.

The thing to watch out for is without specifying the number of retries on error, it defaults to something crazy like 1000 retries at 1 min intervals so if you launch a command and walk away, any error and chances are 3 hrs later it will still be stuck retrying so you come back the next morning and it's nowhere near done, so it's a balance to be struck of do you want it to wait or anticipate any overnight during job network outages that would ladt more than a few minutes or should it "press on"

couple tips about SyncBack, what they call "profiles" are "jobs". The free version does make a log of the results but it's multi-page html and the next time that profile/job runs that log gets overwritten, so if you want to keep the result logs you'll have to set-up to copy them after each run.

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